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Corey Haim is dead.

Corey Haim was taken to the hospital in Burbank, California and pronounced dead at 2:15 AM (PST) from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 38. Throughout his career he had a history of prescription drug abuse, and a history of sobriety. It was something he struggled with in his life. At this time [ READ MORE ]

What’s going on at Activision and Infinity Ward?

How many of you love Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 & 2? Well it’s developer Infinity Ward is having a few family problems.  On March 1st G4 broke the story of Jason West and Vince Zampella (the two minds behind the Modern Warfare franchise) had been fired by Activision. No one knew what was going [ READ MORE ]

All your data are belong to PSN.

UPDATE: Everyone can start coming out of the bunker now.  No official word has been put forth by Sony but it appears that PS3 systems affected by this bug are beginning to work again.  No patch or firmware upgrade was needed.  If your PS3 has suffered from this bug leave a comment telling us of your ordeal [ READ MORE ]

Drunken WoW player chokes his mom, gets shot in the head.

James Swan is 27 and lives with his grandpa, mother and five young children. He likes to play World of Warcraft and sometimes get drunk while doing so. On one of those nights his mother asked him turn the volume down at around 10 p.m. so everyone could sleep peacefully. He didn’t. She asked again [ READ MORE ]

Threats on Xbox Live lead to Texas teen’s arrest.

While playing Modern Warfare 2, a Texas teenager told his Canadian party that he was going to take a few guns to school, that he would get from a Marine friend, and shoot a pregnant girl and his best friend. He also said “that because SWAT may be on the scene within 10 minutes, they [ READ MORE ]

A News Round Up

Welcome, welcome. All links go to places other than this site. Do these annoy you? Christopher Nolan might direct the Superman reboot. Ebayer got $13k for an NES+5 game bundle. Chris Pine (Capt. Kirk) on the short list to be Captain America. Wil Wheaton will be the inaugural keynote speaker at PAX East. Netflix doesn’t care about streaming HD, being [ READ MORE ]

Bulletproof Blackberry

Have you ever been putting on your coat at a restaurant and accidentally set off the gun that you were carrying only to have it shoot your girlfriend in the leg?  Yeah me neither.  That’s exactly what happened to Anthony Holtvogt and I bet he was relieved when he found out that all his girlfriend [ READ MORE ]

I’m a potential sociopath according to Supernanny’s video game study.

Jo Frost is the Supernanny. Basically, she takes unruly kids and the parents they walk all over and turns them into rule-abiding, behaved families. This woman does not sugar coat the truth, she tells the parent exactly what she sees and advises them on how to fix it. The first episode of her new show Jo [ READ MORE ]

Microsoft said no to a Xbox contract for the US Army

It comes down to a simple reason: Public Relations. The consoles were to be used in place of the PCs that are currently used for training and education, but Microsoft didn’t want to sell the Xbox 360 or license XNA game development tools to the Army at a trade show in 2006. (The man wanting to [ READ MORE ]

Butthurt Nintendo gets $1.3 million worth of revenge

Nintendo announced that they were the victor of an Australian court case involving a man, James Burt, who uploaded the first pirated copy of New Super Mario Brothers Wii onto the internet a week before it’s official release. Captain Burt now owes $1.3 million dollars to Nintendo, for pirating a game that has sold over [ READ MORE ]

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